The ''Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine'' (''CJSM'') is a peer-reviewed medical journal in the

sports medicine Sports medicine is a branch of medicine that deals with physical fitness and the treatment and prevention of injuries related to sports and exercise. Although most sports teams have employed team physicians for many years, it is only since the ...

field. It is published by

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) is an American imprint of the American Dutch publishing conglomerate Wolters Kluwer. It was established by the acquisition of Williams & Wilkins and its merger with J.B. Lippincott Company in 1998. Under the L ...

. It was established in 1990 by the

Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source o ...

with Gordon Matheson as the founding editor. It is also the official journal of the

Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians The Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians (ACSEP) is a not-for-profit professional organisation responsible for training, educating, and representing over 350 doctors in Australia and New Zealand. These doctors practise medicine ...

, the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) and American Osteopathic Academy of Sports Medicine. It is the pre-eminent non-surgical sports medicine journal of North America. In North America (USA and Canada),

is a subspecialty field of medicine with an even split between surgical and non-surgical subspecialties. The surgical branch of sports medicine is a subspecialty field of

orthopedics Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics ( alternatively spelt orthopaedics), is the branch of surgery concerned with conditions involving the musculoskeletal system. Orthopedic surgeons use both surgical and nonsurgical means to treat musculoskeletal ...

, whereas the non-surgical branch draws from specialties including

family practice Family medicine is a medical specialty within primary care that provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and family across all ages, genders, diseases, and parts of the body. The specialist, who is usually a primar ...

physiatry Physical medicine and rehabilitation, also known as physiatry, is a branch of medicine that aims to enhance and restore functional ability and quality of life to people with physical impairments or disabilities. This can include conditions su ...

, pediatrics, internal medicine and emergency medicine. The journal

editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...

is Christopher Hughes. There are active associate
CJSM Blog
an
Podcast
sites which are edited by Deputy Editor James MacDonald.

Abstracting and indexing

It has a current ranking of Orthopedics 16/82, Sport Sciences 16/85 and Physiology 22/81 with an Impact Factor of 3.165. These rankings generally place the journal in the top quartile of the fields related to sports medicine.

Concussion in sport articles

A specific focus of research is sports concussion articles, with many of these housed in a specific collection.

Consensus statement articles

CJSM publishes regular consensus statements from bodies such as the AMSSM and others.

References

External links

* {{Official website, https://journals.lww.com/cjsportsmed/pages/default.aspx/
Concussion articles in CJSM

Consensus statements in CJSM
Sports medicine journals Publications established in 1990 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins academic journals English-language journals